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Do not yet fold your wings: Liverpool Irish Festival:

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The performance seems to have been a success. I did feel that it took the audience a while to know how to see me in this music context but gradually, as I fed from the music and the musicians, and unravelled the movement material and ideas I’d brought, I felt part of the bigger sonic, kinetic and visual energy we created together. I’m grateful for all of these opportunities to be dancing with and for people. And I hope that I will be as brave, curious and creative as Bisakha Sarker. read more…

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www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk review of Liverpool Irish Festival’s commission: Stealing Sheep, Immix Ensemble, Fearghus Ó Conchúir

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– Bluecoat, Liverpool, 25th October 2015 By Andy Vine · On October 27, 2015 LMW_Stealing SheepThe stage is set, in an inverted T-shape with a low catwalk in the middle, so the widest part is closest to the audience. Stealing … read more…

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Choreodrome Rehearsals Week 2 – The Casement Project

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After our first two weeks of rehearsal on The Casement Project, there are some things I know and many more questions yet to be answered. It’s not a bad place to be in. After the confidence required to make a good proposal, this more humbling uncertainty feels like a better place from which to be creative. read more…

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Choreodrome Week One – The Casement Project

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It was a relief to get in to the studio this week with some of The Casement Project dancers and to begin to explore in such articulate and creative bodies some of the ideas that I’ve been storing over the past two years. read more…

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Ireland 2016 – The Casement Project

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Today, at the RHA in Dublin, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys announced that The Casement Project is one the successful proposals in the Arts Council’s 2016 Open Call for National Projects. read more…

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Cosán Dearg at the Agnès b. Librairie Galerie, Hong Kong

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I’d thought I’d given up dancing on concrete floors. A commitment to presenting dance beyond the theatre, where different people might meet it and where it could resonate differently, had led me to performing on hard floors. But after tearing … read more…

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Mind Your Step: After the performances

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This robust permeability of Niche depends to a great extent on the qualities of the gifted, creative performers and also to the history of our working together and clarifying the intention and ethics of our way of performing. read more…

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Mind Your Step: Niche back in the Docklands

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When I saw the call for artists to participate in the Mind Your Step project, I was worried that it didn’t seem to acknowledge the work of dance artists and others who had linked choreography, urban planning, regeneration, architecture and … read more…

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The Rhythm of Fierce: interview with Ellie O’Byrne

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Ellie O’Byrne hosts a weekly arts and culture show in Cork. She came to see a run of The Rhythm of Fierce during our final week of rehearsals at Firkin Crane and when she joined in the dancing herself at the end of the run, I knew she’d be a sympathetic interviewer. read more…

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Dance democratisation: Review of Cure at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre

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If choreography is about the placement of the body in the space and each of us manifests our existence through this vessel named “body”, it is just natural that everyone has his version of choreography. If dance-making is about epitomizing the body as a medium of communication, this is what the performance is about. read more…

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